ḥrj jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḥrj +‎ jb, literally ‘being upon the heart (of)’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛri ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: heri ib

Adjective

1. being in the midst (of)
2. (of a deity, followed by the name of a temple) indicates that a deity is worshipped in a particular temple, but that their main temple or shrine is elsewhere

Inflection

Declension of ḥrj jb (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḥrj jb	ḥrt jb
dual	ḥrjwj jb, ḥrwj jb	ḥrtj jb
plural	ḥrjw jb, ḥrw jb	ḥrwt jb1, ḥrt jb2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrj jb  

ḥrj jb

Derived terms

• jww-ḥrjw-jb

Related terms

• ḥr jb

Noun

 m

1. midst, middle
2. inmost parts (of someone)

Inflection

Declension of ḥrj jb (masculine)

singular	ḥrj jb
dual	ḥrjwj jb
plural	ḥrjw jb

Alternative forms

See under the adjective section above.

References

• “ḥr.j-jb (lemma ID 108540)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 136.7–138.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 174
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 121, 131, 276.